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This Place on Third Avenue

This Place on Third Avenue

McNulty, John

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1582432139
ISBN13: 9781582432137
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: May 9 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.02 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
A collection of hilarious, poignant, and eternal stories by the acclaimed New Yorker writer captures the off-beat, quirky, and amusing characters that he encountered at Tim and Joe Costello's Irish Saloon, from cab drivers, horseplayers, and glamour girls, to has-beens, never-weres, and dreamers.

From 1937 until his death in 1956, John McNulty walked many beats for The New Yorker, but his favorite--and the one he made famous--was Tim and Joe Costello's a bustling Irish saloon at Third Avenue and Forty-fourth Street. The place is gone now, it was leveled and replaced by the lobby of a skyscraper in 1973, but it and its hard-drinking mid-century patrons live on in these funny, poignant, immortal sketches and stories.

McNulty's people are drawn from life, and draw the breath of life. What a marvelous writer McNulty was! said Brendan Gill when they tore down Costello's. His stories will survive . . . and perhaps seem all the more remarkable to a later generation for the reason that both the time and the place they celebrated have disappeared without a trace--brick and stone as thoroughly ground to dust as man.

There is a short shelf of American classics born in the talk of ordinary folk--Mark Twain's sketches, Ring Lardner's baseball yarns, Studs Terkel's Chicago, and Joseph Mitchell's reports from the waterfront. With This Place on Third Avenue, that shelf grows one book longer.

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